Ohio Revised Code Chapter 503 - General Provisions

• Section 503.01 - Corporate Powers And Duties Of Civil Township.
  Each civil township is a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of enjoying and exercising the rights and privileges conferred upon it by...
• Section 503.02 - Township Boundaries Changed By Partition Or Division.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of county commissioners may change the boundaries of any civil township, or partition any...
• Section 503.03 - Area Of Townships.
  Except as provided in section 503.09 of the Revised Code, no new township shall be laid off containing less than twenty-two square miles, but...
• Section 503.04 - Notice Of Hearing - Record Of Boundaries.
  Before action is taken on an application for partition, alteration, change, or laying off of the boundaries of a township by the board of...
• Section 503.05 - Adjustment Of Disputed Boundaries.
  When a boundary line between townships is in dispute, the board of county commissioners, upon application of the board of township trustees of one...
• Section 503.06 - Marking Township Boundary Lines.
  The board of county commissioners and the county engineer shall determine and suitably mark the township boundary lines at all points where they intersect...
• Section 503.061 - Highway Signs Indicating Boundaries Of Township.
  A board of township trustees, irrespective of the population or any other characteristic of the township, may adopt and submit to the director of...
• Section 503.07 - Conformity Of Boundaries.
  When the limits of a municipal corporation do not comprise the whole of the township in which it is situated, or if by change...
• Section 503.08 - Disposition Of Remainder Of Township - Name.
  After a change of boundaries is made as provided by section 503.07 of the Revised Code, any township not having a municipal corporation remaining...
• Section 503.09 - Petition To Erect New Township Excluding Territory Of Municipal Corporation.
  Where a township contains a municipal corporation, either in whole or in part, if a majority of the freehold electors owning land in the...
• Section 503.10 - Apportionment Of Indebtedness.
  Before entering an order as provided by section 503.09 of the Revised Code, creating a new township, the board of county commissioners shall first...
• Section 503.11 - Division Of Funds On Hand, Credits, And Properties.
  The board of county commissioners, upon entering an order erecting a new township under section 503.09 of the Revised Code, shall include in such...
• Section 503.12 - Appointment Of Township Officers.
  Upon entering an order under section 503.09 of the Revised Code, creating a new township, the board of county commissioners shall appoint all township...
• Section 503.13 - Completion Of Proceedings.
  The petition, map, and order of the board of county commissioners, certified by the county auditor, shall be recorded in the official records of...
• Section 503.14 - Method Of Boundary Change.
  When the change of boundaries of townships is required by reason of the extension of the limits of a municipal corporation, such change shall...
• Section 503.15 - Boundary Change If Corporation Located In Two Or More Counties.
  When a municipal corporation is situated in two or more counties, the application for change of township lines provided for by section 503.07 of...
• Section 503.16 - Change Of Name Of Township.
  The board of county commissioners, on petition of a majority of the electors of an incorporated township, for good cause shown, may alter the...
• Section 503.161 - Change Of Township Name Election.
  (A) A board of township trustees, by a unanimous vote, may adopt a resolution causing the board of elections to submit to the electors...
• Section 503.162 - Election On Name Change Procedure.
  (A) After certification of a resolution as provided in section 503.161 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall submit the question of...
• Section 503.17 - Boundary Change Effect On Contracts.
  When a township is altered, diminished, or changed in any way by the formation of new townships, additions to other townships, or otherwise, such...
• Section 503.18 - Taxable Property.
  In case of a division or change of a township which has retained its original name, the board of township trustees, in levying a...
• Section 503.19 - Manner Of Making Assessment.
  In making the assessment and levy for the payment of any indebtedness as provided by section 503.18 of the Revised Code, or interest thereon,...
• Section 503.20 - Divided Parcels.
  If parcels of a township have been attached to territory in different counties, the board of township trustees shall certify an abstract of the...
• Section 503.21 - Payment Of Money To Board Of Township Trustees By County Treasurer.
  The county treasurer of a county collecting a tax as provided by sections 503.18 and 503.19 of the Revised Code, on demand, shall pay...
• Section 503.22 - Election In New Township.
  When a new township is set off, the board of county commissioners shall forthwith give at least ten days' public notice by advertisement, in...
• Section 503.23 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-01-1967
• Section 503.24 - Vacancy In Township Office.
  If there is a vacancy by reason of the nonacceptance, death, or removal of a person chosen to an office in any township at...
• Section 503.241 - When Township Offices Deemed Vacant.
  Whenever any township officer ceases to reside in the township, or is absent from the township for ninety consecutive days, except in case of...
• Section 503.25 - Notice To Officers Elected Or Appointed.
  Immediately after the election or appointment of township officers as provided by sections 503.22 to 503.24 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer...
• Section 503.26 - Certificate Of Oath To Be Returned And Recorded.
  If a person elected or appointed to a township office takes the oath of office required by section 503.25 of the Revised Code before...
• Section 503.27 - Failure To Accept Office.
  If, after receiving notice of his election or appointment to a township office, a person so elected or appointed fails to take the oath...
• Section 503.28 - Delivery Of Records And Property To Successor - Forfeiture.
  All township officers shall deliver to their successors in office all books, records, documents, laws, obligations, papers, blanks, and all other articles and property...
• Section 503.29 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 503.53.
  Effective Date: 10-25-1995; 12-20-2005; 08-17-2006
• Section 503.30 - Street Markers And House Numbers In Unincorporated Areas.
  A township may erect markers and assign numbers for houses on streets and roads in unincorporated areas. Such expenditures shall be paid for out...
• Section 503.31 - Remnant Of Township Within Boundaries Of Municipal Corporation.
  Where a remnant of a township in which there are no resident freeholders is located entirely within the boundaries of a municipal corporation, such...
• Section 503.40 - Massage Establishment Definitions.
  As used in sections 503.40 to 503.49 of the Revised Code: (A) "Massage" means any method of exerting pressure on, stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping,...
• Section 503.41 - Regulation And Registration Of Massage Establishments And Their Employees.
  (A) A board of township trustees, by resolution, may regulate and require the registration of massage establishments and their employees within the unincorporated territory...
• Section 503.42 - Permits - Licenses - Regulations.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code: (A) No person shall engage in, conduct...
• Section 503.43 - Application For Permit To Operate Massage Establishment.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the application for a permit to operate...
• Section 503.44 - Denial Or Revocation Of Permit.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, it shall deny any application for a...
• Section 503.45 - Application For License As Massager.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the application for a license as a...
• Section 503.46 - Denial Or Revocation Of License.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, it shall deny the application for a...
• Section 503.47 - Requirements Of Operation.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the regulations adopted for that purpose may...
• Section 503.48 - Proceedings Of Board.
  A board of township trustees acting under sections 503.40 to 503.49 of the Revised Code need not hold any hearing in connection with an...
• Section 503.49 - Fees Deposit And Use.
  If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the board shall deposit the fees collected...
• Section 503.50 - Penalties.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 503.42 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B)...
• Section 503.51 - Adult Entertainment Establishment Definitions.
  As used in sections 503.51 to 503.53 of the Revised Code, "adult arcade," "adult bookstore," "adult novelty store," "adult video store," "adult cabaret," "adult...
• Section 503.52 - Adult Entertainment Establishment Regulations.
  (A) Townships have authority to exercise all powers of local self-government regarding the operation of adult entertainment establishments within their limits and to adopt...
• Section 503.53 - Initiative Petition On Resolution Regulating Or Restricting Adult-oriented Businesses.
  (A) Resolutions of the type described in division (A) of section 503.52 of the Revised Code may be proposed by initiative petition by the...
• Section 503.54 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1993; 08-17-2006
• Section 503.55 - Acceptance Of Payments By Financial Transaction Devices For Township Expenses.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Financial transaction device" includes a credit card, debit card, charge card, or prepaid or stored value card,...
• Section 503.56 - Tourism Development Districts.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Tourism development district" means a district designated by a township under this section. (2) "Territory of a...
• Section 503.57 - Taxes Related To Tourism Development.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Admission" means the right or privilege to enter into a place. (2) "Tourism development district" means a...
• Section 503.58 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1993; 08-17-2006
• Section 503.59 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1993; 08-17-2006
• Section 503.60 - Residency Regulation Of Sex Or Child-victim Offenders.
  (A) Townships have authority to exercise all powers of local self-government within their limits regarding the residency of a person who has been convicted...
• Section 503.65 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-25-1995; 08-17-2006
• Section 503.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996; 08-17-2006

Last modified: October 10, 2016